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Hipstamatic

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Hipstamatic is an iPhone/iPod/iPad App that uses filters to create an analog film look. The app is $1.99, and includes several lens, film, and flash choices, which are interchangeable to create different combinations and looks. More lenses, film, and flash types are available in $.99 packages. Photos are square, and are saved both to the app and to your phone's photo album. Photos can be exported directly from the app to Social Media, email, etc., and can also be sorted into "Family Photo Albums" within the app.

How to use the app:

Simply point and shoot. Press the big yellow button to take a picture. Slide and release the flash bar to turn on the flash. To change film, lens, and flash, touch the arrow at the bottom of the screen. If you want a bigger view of what your'e about to capture, you simply double tap to screen.

The camera will then turn around. Touch the film, flash or lens icons at the bottom of the screen to pick new ones.

Strengths:

It is really hard to take a bad picture with this. Somehow even the most mundane, poorly framed pictures still look interesting and artsy.

You can can achieve several different looks for the same picture, by combining flashes, lenses, and film types to create the certain look or feel you are going for, as long as it's within the retro/nostalgic genre. If you do not know or care which combination to use, you can always shake your phone, and it will randomly pick a combination for you.

Here are some examples of the same picture taken with several different combinations:

Weaknesses:

You can't import a picture that you have already taken and "Hipstamatic" it, nor can you change the filters used once the picture is taken.

The "flash" isn't a real flash; it's just another filter, so if you are somewhere with low light, and try to take a picture, it's not going to work.

You also do not have control over zoom or focus, so what you see is what you get, and hopefully whatever automatic settings are in place work for your picture.

What you see in viewfinder: